TY  - JOUR
A1  - Adisa, Akinyele Olumuyiwa
A1  - Udeabor, Samuel Ebele
A1  - Kubesch, Alica
A1  - Barbeck, Mike
A1  - Ghanaati, Shahram Michael
T1  - The utility of azan trichrome staining in Ameloblastoma
T2  - The Nigerian postgraduate medical journal
N2  - Background: It is occasionally difficult to distinguish the stellate reticulum-like region of ameloblastoma from the fibrous connective tissue stroma. This difficulty is further pronounced in the plexiform variant of ameloblastoma that has very sparse fibrous connective tissue.
Aim: To test the utility of Azan trichrome stain in marking tumour regions and the peri-tumour environment of ameloblastoma.
Materials and Methods: Sections were prepared for 18 formalin fixed paraffin-embedded blocks of ameloblastoma cases and stained with Azan trichrome stain according to the manufacturer's specification.
Results and Conclusions: The tumour areas were stained mostly brown, with the ameloblasts mainly marked as deep brown while the stellate reticulum-like region was light brown. The structures in the peri-tumour region were marked with different shades of blue. Azan trichrome staining was able to distinguish between the fibrous connective tissue and the stellate reticulum-like areas in 100% of the cases.
KW  - Ameloblastoma
KW  - Azan trichrome stain
KW  - connective tissue
KW  - stellate reticulum
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/40345
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-403459
SN  - 1117-1936
N1  - This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‑NonCommercial‑ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non‑commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
VL  - 23
IS  - 1
SP  - 44
EP  - 46
PB  - Wolters Kluwer
CY  - Mumbai
ER  -